Google Connect
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We built Google Connect as the answer to all the "clunkiness" around subscribing to calendars with Google Calendar. These issues fall into a few buckets:
Slow and inconsistent updates: Google Calendar can take up to 48 hours to update a calendar subscription, and there is no way to force refresh a calendar. There's also no way of knowing when your calendar was last updated.
Events aren't always added correctly: This is related to syncing updates, but in some cases a calendar will be correctly added to your Google Calendar but events won't appear.
Account & timezone issues: Google Calendar may not add the calendar to the right account if you're logged in with multiple emails. TV calendars work fine on other calendar apps but don't appear at the right time in Google Calendar.
To address the above, we've launched Google Connect.
With Google Connect, you'll give us background access to your Google Calendar. We then directly interface with Google Calendar's API to manage your Stanza Calendars.
As you add / remove calendars or groups on Stanza, we'll keep your Google Calendar in sync.
Why is Google Connect faster at updating than manually subscribing to a calendar?
With Google Connect, we push updates to your calendar. When you subscribe to a calendar through Google, you need to wait until Google pulls for those updates. That could be as infrequent as every 48 hours, and you have no control over it.
You can see when each calendar or group was last updated on your Library page:
How are timezones handled?
Since events are only added to the Google account you connect with Stanza, we can access your calendar's timezone to make sure all events are added correctly.
Note: All calendars or groups added via Stanza will now have a + added to the name so you can easily differentiate them.
Can't subscribe on mobile: Google doesn't let you subscribe to new calendars on iOS or Android []. Instead, you need to subscribe on desktop and then manually sync with every device.
Finally, you can also your calendar at any point of time.
There will be a Google icon with a migration status next to every calendar on your page.
On your page, click on the three dots dropdown to see a status update with when that specific calendar was last updated.
Select Settings and Sharing, scroll down to Integrate Calendar. In the Secret address in iCal format box, select the Copy to clipboard button:
Follow instructions to into your calendar app of choice.
To remove a calendar, simply head to your and delete it there — it’ll be automatically removed from your Google Calendar as well.
Note: If you delete a calendar directly from Google Calendar (instead of from Stanza), it will be re-added during our overnight sync. To fully remove a calendar, make sure to delete it from your Stanza .
Check out this on how to troubleshoot your Android Google Calendar app.
Head back to your page to the calendar. It will be re-added to your Google Calendar.
the calendar to re-sync it. If the error persists, please submit a ticket .
